121 research outputs found
Providence College Faculty Author Series 2012-2013: Dr. Adrian Weimer
No full textDr. Adrian Weimer (History, Providence College) discusses her new book Martyrs\u27 Mirror: Persecution and Holiness in Early New England and the cultural importance of martyrdom within Colonial America
Providence College Faculty Author Series 2012-2013: Dr. Adrian Weimer
No full textDr. Adrian Weimer (History, Providence College) discusses her new book Martyrs\u27 Mirror: Persecution and Holiness in Early New England and the cultural importance of martyrdom within Colonial America
Pollen assemblages as paleoenvironmental proxies in the Florida Everglades
No full textAnalysis of 170 pollen assemblages from surface samples in eight vegetation types in the Florida Everglades indicates that these wetland sub-environments are distinguishable from the pollen record and that they are useful proxies for hydrologic and edaphic parameters. Vegetation types sampled include sawgrass marshes, cattail marshes, sloughs with floating aquatics, wet prairies, brackish marshes, tree islands, cypress swamps, and mangrove forests. The distribution of these vegetation types is controlled by specific environmental parameters, such as hydrologic regime, nutrient availability, disturbance level, substrate type, and salinity; ecotones between vegetation types may be sharp. Using R-mode cluster analysis of pollen data, we identified diagnostic species groupings; Q-mode cluster analysis was used to differentiate pollen signatures of each vegetation type. Cluster analysis and the modern analog technique were applied to interpret vegetational and environmental trends over the last two millennia at a site in Water Conservation Area 3A. The results show that close modern analogs exist for assemblages in the core and indicate past hydrologic changes at the site, correlated with both climatic and land-use changes. The ability to differentiate marshes with different hydrologic and edaphic requirements using the pollen record facilitates assessment of relative impacts of climatic and anthropogenic changes on this wetland ecosystem on smaller spatial and temporal scales than previously were possible
Seeing Drugs: Modernization, Counterinsurgency, and U.S. Narcotics Control in the Third World, 1969–1976
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/new_foreign_relations/17/thumbnail.jpgA timely historical analysis of a persistent global problem
Since its declaration in the early 1970s, the American drug war has spanned the globe in a quest to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the United States. Explaining the conceptual framework within which policymakers understood illegal opium production and trafficking, Seeing Drugs examines the genesis of the war on drugs during the Nixon and Ford administrations when the United States developed the policies that set the parameters of subsequent American drug control abroad.
Faced with rising heroin use in the United States and the fear of drug-addicted Vietnam veterans carrying their affliction home and propelled by the belief that heroin addiction spreads like a contagious disease, U.S. officials identified three Third World nations—Thailand, Burma, and Mexico—as the primary sources of illegal narcotics servicing the American drug market. Author Daniel Weimer demonstrates that drug-control officials in these countries confronted a host of interlocking factors shaping the illicit narcotics trade and that, in response to these challenges, policymakers applied modernization and counterinsurgency theory to devise strategies to assist the Thai, Burmese, and Mexican governments in curbing drug trafficking. The Nixon and Ford administrations sincerely believed their policies could rein in the narcotics trade and diminish addiction within the United States. In the end, however, the drug war only guaranteed continued American intervention in the Third World, where the majority of illegal drug crops grew.
Through interdisciplinary and comparative analysis, Seeing Drugsexamines the contours of the burgeoning drug war, the cultural significance of drugs and addiction, and their links to the formation of national identity within the United States, Thailand, Burma, and Mexico. By highlighting the prevalence of modernization and counterinsurgency discourse within drug-control policy, Weimer reveals an unexplored and important facet of the history of U.S–Third World interaction.
“Essential reading for anyone interested in both the history of U.S. drug policy and the process of modernization during the Cold War.” – William O. Walker III, author of Drug Control in the Americas and Opium and Foreign Policy
“Seeing Drugs explores the dramatic effects of post-1945 U.S. modernization and counterinsurgency efforts, joined with Cold War imperatives, on the United States’ war on drugs. The war on drugs was carried by American dollars, social scientists, officials, and technology into the poppy fields of Mexico, Thailand and Burma. Dan Weimer deftly demonstrates the layered ways in which beliefs about drugs as threat and symbol of antimodernism prompted Americans to forcibly transform drug-growing areas, sometimes with support from indigenous elites. His story, based on impressive research and capacious understanding of theory, reveals both the contradictions in the United States’ war on drugs as well as many reasons for its devastating effects. This work joins much of the most exciting new work in U.S. foreign relations, in taking serious interest in the transformative consequences of U.S. foreign policy for other nations. Seeing Drugs joins Al McCoy’s classic Politics of Heroin as a ‘must read’ for understanding the United States’ war on drugs.” - Anne L. Foster, author ofProjections of Power: The United States and Europe in Colonial Southeast Asia, 1919-1941
“Weimer persuasively demonstrates that discourses of modernization and counterinsurgency helped to shape both U.S. counter-narcotics policy abroad and domestic drug policy at home along coercive lines. An important and timely book with much to teach us about the contradictions of the ‘war on drugs’ in Afghanistan, Colombia, and elsewhere.” – Brad Simpson, Princeton University</p
Inspired College Teaching: A Career-Long Resource for Professional Growth
No full textPraise for Inspired College Teaching "The thoughtfulness, personalization, and consideration Maryellen Weimer demonstrates in discussing the experience of faculty members; her ability to identify issues that are shared and solvable; and her suggestions and solutions to commonly experienced stressors and difficulties in college teaching are major strengths of this volume. In addition, her personal and professional reflections on her long career as a faculty member, writer, and faculty developer expose tantalizing research questions that young education researchers might want to examine. The originality of this volume is its exploration of and reflection on a faculty member's career from a long-term perspective. The focus on iterative self and course renewal is personal and thus practical. In a way, it is a 'workshop between book covers' or perhaps several workshops!" — Laura L. B. Border, director, Graduate Teacher Program and Collaborative Preparing Future Faculty Network, University of Colorado at Boulder "A book by Maryellen Weimer always displays her wonderful grasp of the literature on college teaching and learning, her ability to tell good stories, and her wit and wisdom. This one is no exception." —Nancy Van Note Chism, professor, Indiana University School of Education, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis "Although I work at a faculty teaching center and encounter many books on teaching, I have seen very few that span the full arc of the teaching career and what steps can be taken at each stage in order to retain vitality all the way through the way that this book does. I look forward to getting my own copy and using it as a resource in the faculty development activities of my center. It will have a wide readership." —Mano Singham, University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education, Case Western Reserve University From the Inside Flap Good teaching requires a lot from teachers: emotional energy, the will to keep caring, intellectual stamina, creative approaches, vigilance, perseverance to find the way back from failure, and faith in the power of feedback to promote learning. In this groundbreaking work, Maryellen Weimer, acclaimed education author, experienced college teacher, and editor of The Teaching Professor, posits that the growth and development of a college teacher should be seen as a journey and shows how this career-long quest can be just as exciting as its destination. Inspired College Teaching reveals what faculty at all levels (beginning, mid-career, and senior) are best positioned to accomplish as teachers. It proposes activities that faculty can use across their careers to awaken their intellectual curiosity, develop instructional prowess, and keep alive the motivation to teach with passion. Filled with wisdom and a healthy dose of wit, Inspired College Teaching puts the spotlight on how faculty can best use Weimer's tested improvement process. Step by step, she shows how to select changes, how to adapt them, how to implement them, how to assess their effects, how to revise them, and when to infuse these changes elsewhere in the classroom. This method rests on Weimer's premise that faculty can and should play the central role in their own improvement process. Only by being truly involved can faculty undertake the transformative activities that result in vibrant, invigorated teaching. Inspired College Teaching is the hands-on resource that can help faculty understand and plan for all that it takes to sustain teaching excellence across a career
George Wallingford Noyes Papers (1848-1854): The Oneida Community collection in the Syracuse University Library Author: Noyes, George Wallingford
No full textThis item was originally scanned as part of the Cornell University Library New York State Historical Literature Collection which consists of digital surrogates for materials that were part of a joint study involving Digital Preservation between Cornell University and the Xerox Corporation. Begun in 1990, a process was developed where brittle and decaying books were digitally scanned, using prototype equipment co-developed by Cornell and the Xerox Corporation (the CLASS scanner) and stored as 600dpi, bitonal TIFF images, compressed with ITU Group 4 compression, on digital platters on an EPOCH "jukebox" digital server.. Facsimiles of these books were generated and the books were returned to the shelves. The images were available online using specially-developed clients in Unix, MAC and PC platforms. These clients were developed at Library Technology at Cornell University by William Turner III, David Fielding and Chris Stuart.Because of the nature of this item, it could not be processed using Accessibility tools. A text transcript has been provided for accessibility.The Oneida Community was a religious communal society founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848 in Oneida, New York. The community believed in "perfectionism" and that since Jesus had returned in 70AD, they were to bring about Jesus's millennial kingdom themselves, be free of sin and perfect in this world. The Oneida Community practiced communalism (sharing property and possessions), including in sexual relations. There were other Noyesian communities in Wallingford, Connecticut; Newark, New Jersey; Putney and Cambridge, Vermont. This is a collection of letters from the Syracuse University archives compiled by Mark Weimer
Making the Repository Programmable The TextGrid Repository as a multi-layered Research Environment
No full textThe TextGrid Repository (TGR) is a dedicated research-data repository for the humanities and cultural studies that specializes in XML/TEI–encoded texts. Developed in the DFG-funded TextGrid project from 2006 to 2015, TGR was a pioneering infrastructure, as it embraced the TEI format—a de facto standard in digital humanities and an essential foundation for compu-tational philology. Initially, TGR offered basic storage, download, archiving, and structured metadata for literary texts. Over time, it has evolved into a sophisticated research environ-ment that transcends conventional archival functions. To support advanced scholarly workflows, TGR integrates tools for automated text analysis and annotation—such as Voyant Tools [1], the Language Resource Switchboard [2], and the Annotation Sandbox [3]—with direct export capabilities, thereby lowering technical barriers and streamlining complex analyses. Its incorporation into the NFDI consortium Text+ ushers in a new era of modernization, component upgrades, and enhanced user engagement, open-ing TGR to emerging generations of researchers. Contemporary literary and linguistic scholars demand virtual research environments that dif-fer markedly from those of earlier years. Text-editing projects now emphasize rich presenta-tion layers and custom transformations for reading and highlighting annotated data. Computa-tional literary studies require straightforward access to plain text, programmatic interfaces, and libraries. Library-driven initiatives prioritize authority data integration. Some digital humani-ties inquiries hinge on author attributes—such as gender—while corpus linguistics projects center on detailed linguistic annotations. TGR addresses these diverse requirements by unifying multiple services and access modali-ties. From the end user's vantage point, data can be retrieved via direct reading links, faceted search in the portal's graphical interface, persistent identifiers (PIDs), or programmable inter-faces—including the Python client library tg_client [5]. Prospective data publishers receive expert guidance on metadata quality. In the Text+ context, TGR now offers new services—Notebook Actions [6], which provide a graphical import interface in Jupyter Notebooks, and tg_model [7], which generates the metadata documents required for data ingestion—alongside established tools (tg-crud [8] and tg_admin [9]) that handle repository maintenance and document management. Collectively, these enhancements simplify and accelerate data import and publication workflows. A clear indicator of TGR's transformation is the surge in new projects over recent years, which has greatly enriched the repository's content. Whereas TGR once catered primarily to German studies, it now houses materials in over one hundred languages and multiple script systems (including Coptic, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Armenian), reflecting the needs of a broad spectrum of disciplines. In our presentation, we will demonstrate key new functionalities and illustrate how TGR's cur-rent multi-layered research environment departs from its original archival role. Special em-phasis will be placed on the latest automated processes, which not only facilitate but actively promote computer–assisted analyses, all while ensuring the highest standards of metadata quality
Governance and Evidence-Based Medicine: Lessons from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network
No full textThe author explores whether an evidence-based governance arrangement based on the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network be applied to Medicare through a sketch of MedSAVE, an organization that would set reimbursement rates and reporting requirements for surgeries paid for by Medicare
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